Re: Rotting Fruit and Nepenthes

John H. Phillips III (phillips@library.ucsf.edu)
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:50:32 -0700

At 05:03 PM 9/11/96 -0700, you wrote:

> One thing you could try doing, I suppose is put a slice of banana or
>some such fruit near your Nepenthes to help attract some fruit flies or the
>like closer to your Nepenthes. That might help them along a bit...
>
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Be careful about placing the rotten fruit too close to the pitchers, the
gases released from rotting fruit will prematurely age the pitchers.